London’s Daily Telegraph reports:
The Clinton camp hopes to stop the Obama bandwagon by winning Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4, after which Mrs Clinton is planning to call on party grandees including Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Harry Reid, the party’s leader in the Senate, to persuade Mr Obama to stand down.
Clinton aides have privately admitted that Mr Obama would only consider such a move if offered the position of vice presidential running mate, something Mrs Clinton has always been reluctant to consider.
A senior Democrat who has discussed Clinton campaign thinking with a member of her inner circle said: “The Clintons are in a state of panic. She has to win both Texas and Ohio.”
The paper also tosses in Al Gore as a possible compromise candidate for a Dem deadlock, and J.C. Watts as a possible Veep pick for Sen. John McCain.
Also, being someone who likes those organization stories, I note the WaPo story on Sen. Barack Obama’s aggressive ad campaign raises questions about the way Clinton spent her money last year.
(h/t Memeorandum.)
Update: Upgraded to more-than-quiet panic.
The problems that the Republican party is having with its (real/actual) conservatives pales in comparison to the battle (royale) that’s being set up for the Democrats.
From what I can tell, Hispanics are in the process of replacing Blacks as the ethnic group of choice in the Democratic party. Blacks have always been fairly conservative voters but not willing to make that jump to the Republicans – rarely even to merely vote for Republicans – for various reasons. The importance of those reasons may fall away depending on the outcome of the Hillary/Obama contest. The speed with which they fall away may depend on how that outcome is determined.
Also, from the article: ‘The one thing the Clinton and Obama camps can agree on is that John McCain, who is popular with independents and moderate Democrats, is their “worst nightmare”.’
I’m not used to seeing any of my opinions validated by others, but this was certainly interesting.
Good luck Senator Obama, you’re going up against the most ruthless, powerful, and corrupt political machine since the Tammany Hall days in New York City.
Obama as VP is a lot in tension with his messiahness, and I think messiah jr. is not really an archetype we’re exactly familiar with.
Oh. Heres. I got that from the secret Baracky handbook of campaign wisdom. The link works, but you won’t find it if you search for it. It’s all Zen like that.
The HTML is in conflict with my playful spiritual being.
There is so much drama in the Dems dilemma. If the Clintons loose how much of a contribution will they make in the campaign? How much will their die hard loyalists make? A white woman and a black man running together? I don’t think so. We have come a long way racially, but that far? If the MSM and the Republicans really begin to blast Obama for his shallowness and total incompetence he will fall apart like a wet paper bag.
You know the blacks will give him their vote 99%. Of course this reverse racism will never be mentioned by the media or the Republicans. In fact if there is any attack on this empty suit he will try to make it a racial issue.
This will be my 13th presidential election, and I have never seen such a sorry bunch of candidates in my life.
I thought this was kicky. More and more it reads like back-door Jesusification.
Doris Lessing. Helped Al Gore trivialize the Nobel Peace Prize. Even more so than it already was.
J.C. Watts is good; front-runner material even. Better than McCain.
I think you can stick a fork in her.
Hey, Ed . . . checked out your place. Some good stuff there.
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